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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 2294729" data-attributes="member: 957">I haven't given it enough thought to really have an opinion on the "core story" part.  But I agree with the rest.I agree with the earlier presented Greyhawk is Stone Soup and FR is Vegetable Soup (or whatever it was) analogy.  But with one significant difference.  FR is like vegetable soup where all the ingredients come in separate little bags.  You can easily take and leave what you want and you can even pull a few bags out to mix into your own home made soup.  Heck, you can even buy the little bags individually, so you can buy just what you want.I wasn't inspired to buy anything else after the EbCS.  But that book had two major elements in my assessment. 1) Stuff that was routine and brought nothing new in.  Which certainly allows for the "you can bo anything in Eberron claims".  But it doesn't bring anything new to the table, so I don't see why I should buy it.2) Stuff that is tightly connected to the Eberron setting (vegetable soup with all the ingredients already mixed together).  Shard related stuff, warforged related stuff, house stuff, the war stuff, etc...   Stuff that is so tied to the political story, history and georaphy of the setting that it isn't nearly as homebrew friendly as FR.I'm not predicting that Eberron will go down in flames.  But when compared to the established success of FR, it is clearly missing the home brew support element.  I don't recall ever actually playing a game set in the Realms.  Maybe once or twice, but I don't recall any right now.  But I buy a large portion of FR material.  I don't buy Eberron material because it doens't offer me things I am looking for.</blockquote>

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